- Karnak and Thebes rose and fell together, it was with the rise of The Middle Kingdom that Amûn and his temple really begin to come into the prominence which they never afterwards lost, save for the brief interlude of Atenism, until the fall of the Empire .
- The traces of the great temple which existed at Karnak at this time ( roughly 2000 B.C. ) are scanty, though they have been added to within recent years by Legrain's notable discoveries of fine and important sculpture in relief and in the round, dating chiefly from the reigns of Senusret I and Senusret III, and Chevrier's discovery of the elements of a sculptured chapel of Senusret I .
- Amûn now, with the rise of a Theban royal line, became the chief god of the kingdom, and the other members of his triad, his consort Mût, and their son Khonsu, the moon-god, rose along with him .
- Amûn was now identified with Rê of Heliopolis, the nearest approach to a universal god which Egypt had attained to, and henceforth as Amen-Rû .
- The Middle Kingdom temple stood towards the rear of the existing buildings of Karnak, behind and possibly beneath the granite sanctuary of Philip Arrhidaeus, and between it and the festal hall of Tuthmosis III .
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